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No place to go, Rohingyas seek refugee status in India.

Priyanka in Delhi / May 18, 2012.

Living in tattered tents in Delhi, Myanmarese refugees from the Rohingyas community have been demanding refugee status in India, as they seek jobs and education for their children. Priyanka reports in Rediff News……

A group of 2,500 Myanmarese refugees were on Tuesday chased out of a barren land near the Sultan Garhi Dargah in South Delhi.

5000 Rohingya Muslims are seen in Delhi. Muslim leaders are demanding rehabilitation of 4 million of Rogingyas in India. Govt of India is contemplating suitably.

The group belonging to the Rohingyas community, an ethnic minority in northern Myanmar who had been camping near the dargah for a week, was driven out by the police. They now have scattered across the city, mainly near the Old Delhi railway station, Kashmeri Gate and Ajmeri Gate.

“We had a meeting with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and they asked us to go back to our country. They said they cannot do anything for us,” one of the refugees, Masood Mohammad said.

Meanwhile, at a makeshift refugee camp near Pir Baba, women lay under tattered tents, or, as in most cases, under bed sheets held up by four bamboo sticks, an unlikely respite from the summer heat in the capital. Young children and men roamed around aimlessly.

‘Only a few of us have an asylum-seeker card’

At first, the refugees camped at a small open area opposite the United Nations office in Vasant Vihar where they cooked, ate and slept out in the open for almost 30 days.

“We have been demanding refugee status in India,” said Zia-ur Rehman, one of the refugees. “Only a few of us have an asylum-seeker card, which does not give us any benefits. There is no ration, no food, no job, nothing,” he said.

People belonging to the Rohingya community are Muslim natives of the Arakan region in Myanmar. According to the United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, the origin of the name ‘Rohingya’ comes from ‘Rohang’ or ‘Rohan’, a name popularly assigned to the Arakan region in the ninth and tenth century.

However, these are different and should not be confused with ‘Rakhine’, another community that resides within the same region. The latter form an ethnic majority, and are of mixed Hindu and Mongolian ancestry.

“In the name of gross deprivation, they want to capture Indian space very substantially. Indian Muslim communities provides them.” – HE.

‘Rohingyas subjected to abuse, exploitation, and discrimination’

With an enormous breeding of new generation, the Rohingya Muslims threat the fate of your own children. Callous India Govt tolerate them. They may claim a room in your house also.

A Human Rights Watch report says that the Rohingyas community has been subjected to abuse, exploitation and discrimination and they have been fighting to gain recognition as a ‘distinct ethnic group’ in Myanmar, and for equal opportunities in education and earning livelihood.

The Rohingyas community has also gone through many phases of forced exoduses from Myanmar, cites the report. The report chronicles their tale of mass migration from Mayanmar, first after the military coup in 1962, and for a second time in 1991-92.

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As a result, close to 260,000 Rohingyas people were already living in refugee camps in Cox Bazaar, their first point of entry into Bangladesh, by 1992.

The Rohingyas have now been coming to India to find refuge and wants a refugee status. Read details here.

‘Most refugees have had no formal education’

“But many of them managed jobs in Delhi” – HE.Sheikh Ahmed, a young 24-year-old refugee, came to India a month back. After staying in Aligarh for a while, he joined the protests in Delhi, and is now a part of the refugee group camped in the middle of nowhere. Most of the people, women mostly, are unable to speak in Hindi or English. Most of them have had no formal education, while some have been able to study up to class ten. They now work as rickshaw pullers or rag pickers in the city. “We face lot of exploitation in Myanmar, as we are not allowed to study. They also took our lands,” said 26-year-old Amir Khan. “I too wanted to study, but we came here to India for better prospects, hoping our children will be educated and we might be able to find jobs.” Khan works in a bangle factory nearby, and has been living in the capital on a meager monthly salary of Rs 3,000.

‘Bangladesh is their first point of entry’

“Bangladesh is silently jeopardizing the demography of India by infiltrating Bangladeshi Muslims, now Rohingya Muslims – Bangladesh is acting as an enemy State.” – HE.

ASI monuments, bank of Jamuna, Dargas are their new destinations. Delhi security has no meaning for them. They are absolutely free to move anywhere.

Having followed the migration of Rohingyas refugees into India, he said, the influx into India territory is not a new concept.

“The Rohingyas have coming to India since 1992,” Nair says.

He explains, “Technically, Bangladesh is their first point of entry. They enter Bangladesh through the Cox Bazaar, which is very close by to Chittagong.”

Unlike the ethnic Myanmarese who prefer to enter India through the state of Mizoram, as they can easily blend with the local population, the Rohingyas population usually takes the Bengal border or the Bihar-Kishangarh border to enter into the country, Nair said.

“Many of them would want to go to Pakistan and merge with the Muslim population there, but the LoC has become very stringent now. Hence, you will find many Rohingyas refugees who have lived in Jammu for a while and have now come to Delhi,” he added.

There are about a dozen police personnel stationed, but they say that they are not responsible for the safety of the refugees, and are only there to maintain law and order.

“We are here just to see that there is no law and order problem,” said Anil Sharma of Vasant Vihar police station. “Their safety has been taken up by the Jamiat Ulema,” he added.

People, who say they belong to the Burmese Rohingya community from Myanmar, sit in an open air madrasa, or a religious school, at a camp in New Delhi. Clear intention to Islamize the issue.

Jamiat Ulema leader, Mahmood Madani, who is also a member of the Rajya Sabha, has written to Home Minister P Chidambaram to intervene and provide some assurance to the refugee status seekers from Mayanmar.Read full report here.

Actually Mahmood Madani has shown his tramp card of utter communal attitude. This man never uttered any words for the REHABILITION of Kashmiri, Bangladeshi or Pakistani Hindu refugees.

WHAT ABOUT THE REHABILITATION OF REFUGEE HINDUS FOR KASHMIR, BANGLADESH AND PAKISTAN? WHO WILL SPEAK FOR THEM?? IS INDIA A SAFE HEAVEN FOR EXTRA MUSLIMS ALL OVER???

CHECK THIS INFLUX/INFILTRATION OF ROHINGYA MUSLIMS IN DELHI OR EVERYWHERE IN INDIA. IS GOVT OF INDIA IS SLEEPING IN THE BORDER? HOW SUCH A HUGE NUMBER OF ILLEGAL BANDLAESHI AND ROHINGYS MUSLIM EXIST IN INDIA?? SHAME OF RULING PARTIES AND THE MUTE OPPOSITION TOO! OH HINDUS! FIGHT DIRECTLY TO CHECK THESE FOREIGN BODIES TO KEEP YOUR NATIONAL HEALTH PROTECTED. – Hindu Existence (HE).

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i urge all hindus to fight for their own cause..
whether they want to live in this country or not…. remember we are already a minority if i take whole world into picture…. if some thing happens to muslim or christians whole world will extend their helping hands we all have seen it… and we are drop in the ocean… if i live nepal behind then india is the only country which has max hindu population… and please do not forget that their are more than 176 countries in the world… plz understand the urgency of the situation… remember that in mahabharat vidur kept saying to dhritrastra that the path which u r following is npot right but he kept following it … and what has happened to him and his family is not hidden from ous… we all are dhritrastra and we slowly but steadly are loosing our rights… its the time when we wake up otherwise in coming years or rather in comming months it will.be too late… and the time never returns… the situation is already alarming… i am doing from my side what all is necessary… i hope that we live till the end of the world… jai hind jai bharat..

brother you know it happens only in india…. no other country in the world accepts people other than its citizens…
their law is strictly sringent… moreover you are talking about bangldesh, pakistan , how can u even think that they will accept these muslims… and that too going by the words of india…. they dont even accept indian muslims they call them musfikr… i dont know how to spell it .. but iys wgat they call indian muslim…they even dont care of muslim living in their own country.. every day their is abomb blast in their country… how can u even imagine that they that they will accept them… they only have eye on kashmir… and you know even kashmiri muslim will not support indian muslim… becoz they think that they are not part of india… sorry to say but a bad suggestion… what we can do that as myanmar is under yhe influenc

om,
This must b boy-cotted nationally by any means,neither HINDUS must b ready to have a slavery of them with in few years of time as bharat were in300 yrs previously under their control and hindutwa was about to ruin completely.
vndematram,
jai hind.

BJP is an ass hole and they are licking the butts of muslims to get votes at the cost on Hindus. The fault lies with our own Hindus as we are very selfish and hav no unity. Look at the Bast****d Nityanand the sexist and rapist became the head of Madurai Mutt. Did one Hindu protested? we are like cows and bend our heads before muslims to get butchered like in Ed. God Bless shameless Hindus. They should get ready to become muslim slaves.